Riviere-Ouelle: Pioneer Memorial
During my visit to Riviere-Ouelle I also photographed this beautiful stone which is dedicated to the earliest pioneers “who built Riviere-Ouelle”.
English translation of the timeline:
1685 – First Registers
1686 – First Chapel
1690 – Phipps’ Attempt to Invade
1781-1825 – Mgr. Panet, Church Curate
1972 – Tricentennial
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Riviere-Ouelle: Une Paroisse Canadienne au XVII Siecle
One day I was on my knees in a cramped, second-hand book shop in the east end of Montreal. What was I doing there? I was rummaging through a slighly damp, crumpled cardboard box shoved up under a metal shelving unit. Under a pile of old French cathechism books and church notices, I noticed an ornate red leather binding sticking out. It turned out to be an original copy (1890) of Abbe. Casgrain’s “Une Paroisse Canadienne au XVII Siecle – La Riviere-Ouelle” – a parish history covering the Riviere-Ouelle of the 17th century. The book is a treasure trove of historical and genealogical information as well as anecdotes. Leafing through the pages gives you some real insight into the French Catholic rural world of the late 1600s. From time-to-time I’ll be sharing selected portions. For today I’ve scanned a few of Abbe Casgrain’s tables which highlight the family names of the original settlers of Riviere-Ouelle.
Chart 1
Families in the Riviere Ouelle Catholic Registers from 1681 to 1690
Autin – Bonin – Bouchard – Boucher – De Saint-Pierre – Dube – Durant – Emond – Gauvin – Grondin – Huot – Laboye – Lebel – Lissot – Mignot – Mignot dit Labrie – Miville – Ouellet - Pelletier – Renouard – Soucy – Trottier
Chart 2
Families in the Riviere Ouelle Catholic Registers from 1690 to 1703
Ancelin – Aubert – Aubert de Gaspe – Berube – Boiry dit Lavergne – Bordeliere dit Laplante – Bouchard – Boucher – Brisson – Contancineau – D’Auteuil – Dancosse – Dionne – Dubroc dit Dutertre – Duval – Fouquereau – Fournier de Belleval – Gagnon – Galbruin – Grondin – Hayot – Hudon – Hudon – Janneau – Juchereau de St-Denis – Juin – Letartre – Loignon – Martin – Meigne – Meigne dit Lagace – Michaud – Mignot – Morin – Paradis – Peltier – Pierrot – Pinel – Plourde – Raby – Roy dit Desjardins – Soucy – Testu – Thibaudeau – Vaillancourt
Source:
Casgrain, Abbe. H.R. (1890) Une paroisse Canadienne au XVIIe Siecle: La Riviere-Ouelle. Pub. C.O. Beauchemin & Fils
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La Pocatiere/Riviere Ouelle Original Land Grants
Riviere-Ouelle Church: the Old and the New
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Riviere-Ouelle Church: the Old and the New
A few years ago I spent an afternoon in Riviere-Ouelle – the seigneury where our Mignier dit Lagace ancestors spent their first century in the New World. As expected, I didn’t find direct traces of our Lagace ancestors. After all the Mignier Lagaces were simple folk and they left Riviere-Ouelle over 200 years ago. However, I did find this memorial stone near the present-day Riviere-Ouelle Church. In English it woud read:
“Site of the first church dedicated to Notre Dame de Liesse, Riviere-Ouelle 1685-1985.”
Even though the original church hasn’t survived it was exciting to think that I was standing on the actual ground of the original church. I spent some time thinking about how our ancestors might have stood in that very spot hundreds of years ago, perhaps chatting before mass – or preparing to enter for their marriage or baptismal services.
The Seignury de la Bouteillerie was established in 1672 and the first settlers arrived just two years later. By 1685 the Riviere-Ouelle Catholic registries were opened and the first church was erected just a year later – however, there was no resident priest just yet! The earliest settlers were served only by missionary priests and it was 1689 before Riviere-Ouelle was accorded its first resident priest.
Riviere-Ouelle Church Today
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Land Grants – La Pocatiere/Riviere Ouelle
Riviere-Ouelle Memorial Headstone: Roussel
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Riviere-Ouelle Memorial Headstone: Roussel/Berube/Emond
This is one of the memorial headstones that I photographed during my genealogical vacation in Riviere-Ouelle a few years ago. It was placed there by the Association des Roussel d”Amerique in honour of Jacques Roussel (1720-1805) and his first and second wives. His wives were Marie-Genevieve Berube (1731-1766) and Genevieve Gabrielle Emond (1735-1802). The stone also states that Jacques Roussel was from Evran in Bretagne (France). The final inscription at the bottom calls these couples : “the ancestors of the Roussels in America”.
Genealogy of the first generations
Jacques Roussel was born in 1720 in Evran Bretagne FR and died in 1805. Jacques was the son of Jean Roussel and Jeanne Charpentier. Jacques married Genevieve Berube on 12 Jan 1750 in Riviere-Ouelle (Kamouraska ) in Notre-Dame-de-Liesse Church. Genevieve was born in 1731 and died in 1766. Her parents were Mathurin Berube and Marie-Angelique Miville/Deschenes.
Children from this marriage:
Josephte Roussel married Jean Berube on 19 Nov 1781 in Riviere-Ouelle, Quebec. His parents were Louis Berube and Urusle Emond. His parents were Louis Berube and Ursule Emond.
Francois Roussel married both his first and second wives in St-Jean-Baptiste parish.
He married his first wife – Therese Cote - on 21 Aug 1785 in L’Isle-Verte (Temiscouata) Quebec. Her parents were Jean Basile Cote and MarieLepage.
He married his second wife – Elisabeth Chaloux – on 27 Nov 1809 in L’Isle-Verte, Quebec. Elizabeth’s first husband was Ignace Cote. Read more »
Mignier dit Lagace: The Next Generations (Part 2)
Descendancy: Andre Mignier dit Lagace and Jacquette Miche
THIRD GENERATION
(For Mignier Generations 1 & 2 go here )
8. Andre Lagace / Mignier (Andre 2, Andre 1) was born in 1702 in Riviere-Ouelle( Kamouraska), Quebec. Andre married Genevieve Rousseau on 19 Jan 1728 in L’Islet, Quebec. Genevieve’s parents were Martin Rousseau and Elisabeth Thibault.
Children from this marriage:
64 F i. Genevieve Lagace / Mignier was born in 1735 in Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere (Kamouraska), Quebec. Genevieve married Pierre Guignard on 20 Oct 1756 in Kamouraska, Quebec. 65 F ii. Angelique Lagace / Mignier was born in 1736 in Quebec. Angelique married Jacques Deneau on 6 Feb 1758 in Kamouraska, Quebec. Jacques was born about 1720 and died in 1761 in Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere, Quebec. 66 F iii. Catherine Lagace / Mignier was born about 1740. Catherine married Joseph Miville / Deschenes on 31 Jan 1763 in Kamouraska, Quebec. 67 M iv. Joseph Lagace / Mignier was born in 1746 in Quebec. Joseph married Rosalie Lizot in 1773 in Kamouraska, Quebec. Rosalie was born in 1738 in St-Roch-des-Aulnaies ((L’Islet) Quebec.
9. Bernard Lagace / Mignier (Andre 2, Andre 1) was born in 1714 in Quebec and died in 1764 in Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere, Quebec. Bernard married Josephte Dube on 5 Oct 1739 in Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere, Quebec. She was the daughter of Mathurin Dube and Anne Miville / Deschenes. Josephte was born in 1713 in Riviere-Ouelle, Quebec and died in 1798 in Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere Kamouraska Bas-St-Laurent QC CAN.
Children from this marriage: Read more »
Little Fox River or Petite Riviere au Renard, Gaspe (Quebec)
This detail of the beach at Riviere-au-Renard is quite grainy but it does allows you to see some of the fishing equipment of that time. Note the wooden tables which were probably used in much the same way as we see in the Marinage du Poisson postcard that I posted a few days ago.
A note on the back shows that tourists really enjoyed visiting the Gaspe region: “Dear Mother, Well you see we are around this far and are enjoying the best part of our trip so far. Lovely scenery and very quaint villages. Chas” The card was sent to a Mrs. M. Mc?ady in Winnipeg and appears to be postdated 1938.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Gaspe – it is a LARGE peninsula in northern Quebec. This tourist must have begun his trip on the western side (bordered by the St-Lawrence River) and had now crossed over at the top to reach Little Fox River. You can see from John Rapkin’s map of 1857, that Little Fox River was at the northernmost tip of the Gaspe – truly remote – Our tourist of 1938 probably did the same thing as our tourists of 2008 – he probably continued his trip down the eastern side of the Gaspe Peninsula which would have brought him alongside one of the richest fishing areas in the world – the Baie des Chaleurs. Read more »
Andre Mignier dit Lagace Land Grant – La Pocatiere/Riviere Ouelle
In the 17th century La Nouvelle France needed as many new settlers as possible. As a result, when soldiers finished their tours of duty, they were offered land in the new seigneuries that were being established up and down the St-Lawrence River. The land was always partitioned into thin strips so that each settler would have some frontage on the St-Lawrence river. Our ancestor Andre Mignier dit Lagace was offered land in the Seigneury of La Pocatiere.
Andre Mignier arrived in La Pocatiere about 1682. His seigneur was Charles Aubert de la Chenaye. By 1699 Andre Mignier son of the same name was given land measuring 4 arpents by 42 between Pierre Soucy and Philippe Boucher.
You can see Andre Mignier’s land at #122. Also, Andre Mignier’s son Michel (our direct ancestor) married Marguerite Pelletier, daughter of Jean Pelletier. You can see both Michel Mignier’s and Jean Pelletier’s land grants. If you look through the rest of Andre Mignier’s sons and daughters-in-law at:
The Mignier dit Lagaces from Poitou-Charentes to Nouvelle France: Beginnings (1)
you will find most of the spouse’s family land grants as well.
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Source: Roy, Leon 1897. Les terres de la Grande-Anse, des Aulnaies et du Port-Joly |
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Historical Document: Andre Meigne, Jacquette Michel Marriage, 1668
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Andre Mignier dit Lagace – what did he look like?
Andre Mignier was a simple, 17th century soldier, so we certainly have no images of him, however we do have this recent painting by Francis Back of a typical soldier of the Carignan-Salieres Regiment. The painting is historically accurate as it is based on equipment lists and descriptions of the period.
Andre Mignier’s regiment was stationed in Nouvelle France (Quebec) between 1665 and 1668. The soldiers were brought here to defend the colony from what Europeans called “marauding” Iroquois warriors. Of course, the Iroquois (and other First Nations and Inuit) were already here before the arrival of the Europeans so they would undoubtedly write this history from a different perspective!
At the end of the three years soldiers (and officers) were offered the chance to settle in Nouvelle France. Officers received seigneuries while their soldiers were offered plots of land. In return they had to meet certain requirements (such as building a house) but most importantly – they had to marry!
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